mastermind tomorrow

[blonde222.livejournal.com]

I can't decide whether to:
a) try to answer the Antonia Forest questions real time as if I was the contestant to see how I would do
or
b) try to speed type the questions into LJ so I have them for the record...

Comments

Re: questions

[elizahonig.livejournal.com]

I'd have gotten the song, but there are 4-5 others that I wouldn't have gotten. On the other hand, I haven't even read the Players books for about 15 years, and it's probably been a decade since I've read the Thuggery Affair either. [Thinks: maybe it's time to revisit the Thuggery Affair. Thinks: and I just ordered *The Marlows and the Traitor* in German!]

German "The Marlows and the Traitor"

[(Anonymous)]

Oooh, I've just received my copy of Marlows and the Traitor in German! I haven't read it properly, just skimmed through to see what they'd changed and found they've missed out massive chunks. I have to say that on a first glimpse through I'm not happy with it at all ... makes me realise how much of the magic of AF's books depends on her use of langauge and all the small, seemingly insignificant details.....

Re: questions

[(Anonymous)]

Well I'd probably not have got the historical ones, having never read those, although I had some idea just from reading the summaries online. But then I probably wouldn't have entered a competition without having read them first!

If I'd re-read the others recently, I might have got the rest, but I couldn't, off the top of my head, remember the song fast enough, or Miss Cromwell's nickname, or Patrick's words in the dust, or the book Lawrie had to read to help with the Tempest, or even the name of her set-piece at the festival, although I'd have remembered with time. I don't know if I'd ever have got the Gondal one, because I tend to skip through those bits pretty quickly when I'm reading that one - the names are all familiar, but I don't really follow the Gondal plot all that well, so who betryed whom would be a bit beyond me! Again though I suppose I'd have mugged up on it a bit if I'd been entering a competition, so I guess I'd have read it more thoroughly.

So she's into the second round - shame they can't have the Marlow books again then, but with harder questions!